Richard Rumbold Quotes

• I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

  Richard Rumbold

  Believe, Fate, Men

  On the scaffold, in T. B. Macauley 'Histories of England' vol. 1 (1849) ch. 1

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• I may say this is a deluded generation, veiled with ignorance, that tho popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it; tho I am sure there was no man born marked of God above another, for none comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.

  Richard Rumbold

  Ignorance, Men, Riding

  "The World’s Famous Orations", Vol. III, Great Britain: I (710–1777) by William Jennings Bryan, 1906.

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• None comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.

  Richard Rumbold

  World, This World, Saddles

  "The World’s Famous Orations", Vol. III, Great Britain: I (710–1777) by William Jennings Bryan, 1906.

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• I am at peace with God; how then can I be confounded?

  Richard Rumbold

  Peace, Peace With God

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• It is for all Men that come into the World once to Die, and after Death the Judgment; and since Death is a Debt that all of us must pay, it is but a matter of small moment what way it be done.

  Richard Rumbold

  Life, Death, Men

  Colonel Richard Rum­bold's last speech at the Market-Cross of Edin­burgh, tei.it.ox.ac.uk. June 26, 1685.

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